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Re: Andre Lafosse Freebies and sales...
Oh, I don't think it has to or should be separated, in fact, I think
just the opposite. I think we all should be able to support ourselves
doing what we love... I just haven't been able to make that world work
for me, and when I tried I just got very cranky. I found me trying to
please an audience at the expense of enjoying what I was doing because
I knew if I didn't get enough heads in the club, it was coming out of
my wallet. I couldn't find a way to combine the worlds. Others here
have. I'm totally happy I figured it out for myself, and it won't work
the same for everyone. My brother tried teaching and he hated it, but
did it to pay the bills. I can't do the same. Music is too precious
to me. I'm not saying you *have* to sell out to make good money in the
music world... but it sure helps.
Mark Sottilaro
On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 05:51 AM, Goddess wrote:
> Mark, as a teacher, this is an interesting argument, -I don't think
> it's necessary to separate the idea of music with compensation. -In
> other
> words, to say that because one may think about money, they must not be
> thinking about music or vice versa.
> -Hopefully I'm reading you right. Anyway, I play and I teach, and I
> very
> much expect some compensation for my time and efforts, and am
> completely OK
> in doing so. -By this, I mean, I may not always get it, but I'd hope
> people around me would feel that what I'm doing is worth while enough
> for
> it. -and not because I feel that that's how I should be repaid so to
> speak, but because it's just a simple fact that people demand money
> from me
> in the world we live in, and I provide something. So I feel that I
> should
> be repaid for it. -otherwise, I'll starve! lol!
> -and then I won't be doing anybody much good, now will I?! lol!
> Anyway, I've learned and practiced and such, for a while, and am OK
> hopefully at what I do. So, with this in mind, I don't feel there's
> anything wrong with asking for something in return.
> Now, re: the music itself, when I play, or try to teach someone
> something, I'm not thinking of the money at all. I'm totally and
> completely focused on the idea at hand, and doing well by the music,
> -my
> student, -myself. -the idea itself... I try to deal with the payment
> issue before or after. -just my thoughts, -thought I might chime
> in...
> -Have an awesome weekend!, K?
>
> Smiles,
>
> Cara
>
> At 01:49 PM 5/22/03 -0700, you wrote:
>> I may be half the guitarist, but I gladly trade that for the ability
>> to
>> make music with no expectation of compensation at all. I couldn't do
>> a
>> wedding band thing. Music is too precious to me. Instead, I now do
>> media design. Total sell out, but they don't touch my music.
>>
>> Good luck Andre. I want to believe you'll succeed. In a way, you
>> have. On the fringe your either 1) a hack or 2) too advanced to be
>> understood my most. Either way, it sucks, but I think we can all
>> agree
>> that you're not a hack.
>>
>> Mark Sottilaro
>>
>> On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 12:25 AM, ernesto schnack wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 21 May 2003 23:11:22 -0700, Andre LaFosse
>>> <altruist@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>> Now, that's a better fate than assembling Nike shoes for $2.00 an
>>>> hour,
>>>> or crawling out of rubble in Baghdad right now. But when I think
>>>> about
>>>> all the traffic going through my site, and how little of an impact
>>>> it
>>>> has on my actual day-to-day existence, it makes me wonder how much
>>>> time
>>>> I may have wasted by focusing so intensely on the EDP, as opposed to
>>>> more bread-and-butter things that might actually lead to my
>>>> generating
>>>> some income from the music-related skills I've been cultivating for
>>>> about 25 years.
>>>>
>>
>>
>
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